“When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.” PeopleThinkingYearsKnowingFieldsYears AgoThirtyThirty Years Author:Gerda Lerner
“When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.” WaitingPerfectMaterialsMirrors Author:Jim Hodges
“When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.” FeelsYearsLittlesSucceedWanderClueBeltsWandering Around Author:James Garner
“When I started working, the big models were people like Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. It was a time when there were models who had real personalities and individuality.” PeopleRealPersonalityIndividuality Author:Marc Jacobs
“When I started working, women were working at 59 cents to the dollar. We got a raise, but it's still unfair. We're still 16 percent of Congress, even though we're 51 percent of the population. We're a low percentage of our CEOs. We're a low percentage of boards and being part of boards.” UnfairCeo Author:Carolyn Maloney
“When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.” MadeFocusCollegeFiftyGradesWrestlingShiftingBucksEighth Grade Author:Urijah Faber
“When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.” WritingLittlesStoriesFeltMillionsPiecesStyleMillion Little Pieces Author:James Frey
“When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.” WritingYearsMindWantedJobsFoundVoiceMy OwnPerfectPicksYears AgoAnalysisAttributesTopicsColumnsOwn BusinessMind Your Own BusinessColumnistsPerfect Job Author:Allan Sloan
“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.” PeopleWritingWould BeFilmActorsCareersIndustryStartingWriting LifeFilm IndustryStarting To Write Author:James Franco
“When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.” WritingArtistI RealizedSpokesBobDylan Author:Benjamin Clementine
“When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.” WritingLevelsEmotionalRealising Author:Ben Marcus
“When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.” WritingCharacterFictionEnvironmentRealisingIncidentsRetrospectWriting Fiction Author:Jonathan Meades
“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized Space Pen cleverly designed to work in weightlessness, given to me by Spider Robinson. At least, I cherish it when I can find it. It is also cleverly designed to seek out the lowest point of your desk, roll off, then find the lowest point on the floor, under a heavy piece of furniture. That's because it is cylindrical and lacks a pocket clip to keep it from rolling. In space, I presume it would float out of your pocket and find a forgotten corner of your spacecraft to hide in. NASA spent $3 million developing it. Good job, guys. I'm sure it's around here somewhere.)” WritingToolsPensNasaGovernment Work Author:John Varley Source: The John Varley Reader
“When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed to communicate with Satan who was us- ing my sickness as his home away from home, and there’s your proof.” WritingProofSickness Author:Dennis Cooper
“When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.” PeopleWritingKindHardStuffStyle Author:Otis Blackwell
“When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.” WritingStoriesLanguageNeighbourhoods Author:Etgar Keret
“When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.” ShouldWritingSawsWrittenOrdinaryScreenplaysSaw Movie Author:William Monahan
“When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.” WritingSchoolLanguageHigh SchoolSophisticatedSchool English Author:Daniel Alarcon
“When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.” IfsWayWritingMadeMajorsDiscoveryGreat ThingsDisagree Author:Ray Bradbury
“When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesShowsFeelingsWantedInterestingNovelPagesI RealizedShort StoryScreenplaysMonologuesInteresting WaysWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Shane Carruth
“When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.” WorldWritingYearsStillsStatesCitiesCrimeGrewGrew UpIncludingIllnessListsTalesMental IllnessAssociationHomosexualityCarolinaNorth CarolinaPsychiatric Author:Armistead Maupin
“When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for it so much that I left the other project and I put all my time on The German Doctor.” WritingFallLeftProjectsDirectDoctorsScriptsMy Time Author:Lucia Puenzo
“When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.” WritingYearsWantedFunnyMediaHabitFitYears AgoResponseTraditionalInterviewsThoughtfulBlogsHeadlinesBlogging Author:Mark Cuban
“When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.” WritingFoundFantasyHumorous Author:Piers Anthony
“When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.” NeedsFeelsWritingGoneDadNotionMy DadApprovalRivalry Author:Paul Theroux
“When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.” IfsWritingUseWould BeNamesSoundMy OwnCommonHistoricalCommon SensePensSophiaPseudonyms Author:Nicola Cornick
“When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.” WritingIdeasUseUsedFeltProcessSidesVoiceSingingToolsProductionsComplicatedMelodyVehicleLyricalExpressive Author:M. Ward
“When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.” WritingStoriesZombie Author:Max Brooks
“When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.” PeopleDistanceSeparation Author:Van Morrison
“When I started, (players) were making $4,000. Now, they don't get out of bed and they already make $10,000.” PlayerBed Author:Milo Hamilton
“When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)” PlayWantedChuckBerries Author:Keith Richards
“When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.” SaidTwoMovingFashionStoresDepartmentThey SaidTailoredDepartment Stores Author:Ozwald Boateng
“When I started, DJs weren't in the media, electronic music wasn't in the sales charts and a DJ was the freak in the corner who provided the music while other people had fun. So to do it, you must have been a freak and a music lover.” PeopleHas BeensFunMediaLoversCornersFreakDjsElectronic MusicHad FunMusic Lover Author:Paul van Dyk
“When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.” YearsWellsMeanMadeTwoTodayFilmThreeSawsLowsBudgetsExploitationFrozenDistributionTheatrical Author:Roger Corman
“When I started, everyone said couture was finished and I was so scared. Actually I was more terrorized than scared. I was arriving from a provincial area of Italy. They called me in to do Givenchy and I just thought, Wow.” Scared Author:Riccardo Tisci
“When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer” OffersDecidedBullshit Author:Cliff Burton
“When I started, I had that naïve mentality that you shouldn't have to dress celebrities if your product is good. But when you're an emerging brand and you don't have millions for advertising and marketing, it's a good vehicle to penetrate the demographic that doesn't read GQ - or Interview. But if they see Milo Ventimiglia in one of my leather jackets in Us Weekly, that's a new audience for me.” AudienceMarketingAdvertisingMentalityVehicleEmerging Author:Simon Spurr
“When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.” BelievePersonsWantedTeachImpossibleSensibilityIntuitiveSeductiveLeading MeImpossible Things Author:Mark Leyner
“When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.” YearsHandsArtistMy OwnBoysHip HopAlbumsVideoHipsHopsMusic ArtistHip Hop MusicPretty Boy Author:ASAP Rocky
“When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.” YearsStoriesWantedArtistActorsProduceAccidentsCandidatesFifteenFifteen Years Author:Robert Redford
“When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.” PeopleUsedLiteratureUnderstandingBlackColorMetaphorWideInstanceRangeDevicesBlack PeopleBlacknessRhetorical Author:Kerry James Marshall
“When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.” WritingLittlesMightNovelHopefullyWizardsGoofyPart Time Author:Jim Butcher
“When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.” IfsWantSaidMovingStuffTeacherSingersSomething NewPush Yourself Author:Anna Netrebko
“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.” PeopleKidsAgeSituationBreakClearRocksRevolutionNeededLoudRock And RollRepressionBreak ThroughUnfeeling Author:John Lennon
“When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.” ChildrenSaidFactsRoomsPressesBoxesWorkplaceCredentials Author:Lesley Visser
“When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.” WayFeelsTryingEnergyStuffFiguresHugeScriptsBoatRelaxAcceptableEntertaining Author:Bill Murray
“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.” CharacterReaderGayAssumptionIrrelevant Author:Carol Anshaw
“When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.” LooksBigsTelevisionInterviewsPublishersProfile Author:Doris Lessing
“When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.” KidsCitiesWaveSpokesUkulele Author:Kid Koala
“When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.” KindSaidSpiritualLosesPracticeYogaWeightProductiveLose Weight Author:Karan Bajaj